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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 2015896" data-attributes="member: 7261">There's a reason cliches become cliches.  There's something to them, something timeless that really lets you hang a nice story on top of them so long as the cliche is just the motivator and not the plot. I've been writing for, oh, about eight years (and doodled with the idea for five before that), seriously writing for about two.  I've seen a big jump in the quality of my work because I'm finally moving beyond the surface of what I want to write about.  If you picked up the first draft of my manuscript eight years ago it was about what happened and nothing else.  If you read it today, it's got aspects of life in it.  I find myself writing about things the average person can relate to, even if they're not an elf or a mage or a knight wielding a massive zweihander.  Things like what it means to grow up, about family and relationships, home, finding yourself... that kind of stuff. And that's why the hero's journey is such a great medium.  Just as the hero starts one place and physically moves to another through the course of the quest, they grow as a person through the trials and tasks they must overcome, learning something about themselves or the world around them in the process. But, in the end, the hero of my story still has a lot of the same problems we all have.  He doubts himself and his abilities from time to time and his family life leaves something to be desired.  That doesn't make him any less heroic; on the contrary, it's about finding the hero inside all of us, even if we're slaying high gas prices, not troll warriors.</blockquote>

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